I mean the the information was extraordinary in that book but I thought it was really important because one of the key tactics is to say the culture war doesn’t exist, or the culture war is a right-wing myth, or that no one’s getting canceled, or that all of these things it’s just scaremongering. So what I decided I would do is I would catalog a lot of it. I would make sure that that there are sufficient number of examples so that that denial no longer stands. And as you know there’s extensive endnotes which source all of the stories.
“There’s certain things minors cannot do because they’re minors. So you don’t think something as big as changing your gender, shouldn’t you wait until you’re at least 18? The fact that people can’t even have a conversation about that without labeling somebody transphobic is very, very, very, very strange to me because it’s not like these people are saying, ‘No, we don’t want anybody transitioning,’ you know. Or ‘being trans is wrong.’ They’re simply saying, ‘Hey, let these minors wait until they’re a certain age.’ That’s very worthy of a conversation,” Charlamagne said.
“You have markets sitting there saying, I see what consumers are demanding, I see what the trends are going on globally, I want to move my capital to a sector that is able to invest capital and deliver stable returns,” he said. “The crazy wing of the Republican Party sees all that and says, ‘if we just call this woke capitalism, maybe we can scare financial institutions into making economic decisions that will steer money back to our congressional districts.’”
“Many liberal politicians are pressuring banks to use both their balance sheets and their influence to address issues wholly unrelated to banking, such as global warming, gun control, voter rights, and abortion,” Toomey said in a statement. “Several large banks have been far too willing to acquiesce to these demands by embracing a liberal ESG agenda that operates outside of representative democracy.”
You’re a Brit—tell me where abortion is explicitly protected in Magna Carta or Bill of Rights?
It ain’t, so they legislate. Some libertarian folk totally support a women’s choice but can’t support bad jurisprudence and overreach on the constitution.
Essentially the US conservatives want what the UK and many other countries have done —legislate its legality—and people protesting what the US has done with overturning Roe vWade, including many Brits, are often too dumb to realize that is the reality in their own country. It is legal but through the legislative not Judicial branch.
I think many conservatives just want it banned all together. Pointing to why hasn’t it already been legislated is just a form of taunting. We all know without a supra-majority, ain’t nothing getting done.
That’s a generalization. On gay rights, when the Clintoons were passing Defense of Marriage Act in the 90s/Don’t Ask, Don’t tell, it was libertarian GOP icon Barry Goldwater, who said “you don’t need to be straight to shoot straight.”
On abortion, you will find many opinions within a big tent party, which is refreshing from the woke conformism propagated by intolerant Dims and their machine politics.
